From: "Glenn Meadows" 

How full is the HD?  Any chance you can replace the HD?

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Glenn M.


"David Blair"  wrote in message
news:41ffcc75$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I have a laptop, 2.8ghz Celeron, 512mb RAM, ultra slow 30 gig HD. (Hey,
it's
> a laptop, after all. Why DO they insist on using 4300 rpm drives?)
>
>
> A couple of weeks ago, this suddenly started running VERY slowly. Lots of
HD
> access. But no spyware shows up with AdAware or SpyBot, and no viruses are
> detected. I've defragged it about 7 zillion times.
>
> I get a bad block error showing my event viewer, but CHKDSK doesn't seem
to
> mark it when it runs at startup.
>
> Why would I be running so horrendously slow? Any ideas where to look? And
> how do I get the bad block locked out?
>
>

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